Jason Grout wrote:
> R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
>> Would you recommend that I compile from the source tarball instead?
>
>
> Personally, that's what I recommend. Sage development moves at a nice
> pace, and you're already missing out on a lot of very nice features and
> a lot of bugfixes because the debian package hasn't kept up. The Sage
> that you download is self-contained in one directory, which you can
> delete or move around, so it is trivial to have multiple versions of
> Sage installed in parallel in your home directory, for example.
Thank you. I have downloaded, compiled and installed sage-3.4 from the
source tarball on my Kubuntu Intrepid PC. It has been packaged really
well because there were no hiccups. I only did two things after that.
1. On the first invocation of sage after installation, with
sudo sage
I ran
install_scripts('/usr/local/bin')
at the sage: prompt.
2. I also symlinked the sage script so:
sudo ln -sf /path-to-untarred-sage/sage-3.4/sage /usr/local/bin/sage
After that, things have been running smoothly and the problem with
solving non-linear equations that originally prompted this thread has gone.
>>> Does running "sage -maxima"
>>> run maxima? Can you solve simpler equations?
This time, on running sage -maxima I get:
---
Maxima 5.16.3 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp CLISP 2.46 (2008-07-02)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
---
For the benefit of the debian-sage team, the result for the Debian
package was
---
> Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (aka GCL)
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
> provides bug reporting information.
---
Perhaps the differences between these two versions, including the type
of Lisp, (plus other possible differences) contributed to the error I
originally saw with the Debian package.
Cheers!
Chandra
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